US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College, Lahey Clinic on July 15 for "Color dependent polarization enhanced laparoscopy/endoscopy for enhanced visualization of lesions" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,182, issued on July 15, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.) and Lahey Clinic Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Color dependent polarization enhanced laparoscopy/endoscopy for enhanced visualization of lesions" was invented by Irene Georgakoudi (Winchester, Mass.), Einstein Gnanatheepam (Medford, Mass.), Robert Michael Trout (Medford, Mass.) and Thomas Schnelldorfer (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for improved imaging of internal tissue structures, such as lesions in the peritoneum, are disclosed employing color-weighted Polarization Enhanced Light (mPEL) imaging. A target tissue can be Illumin...